Nice, peaceful morning ....

25th December 2025 (Thursday)    I wish you all "Merry Christmas", full of  love, happiness, and lots of laughter.

09.45   We have a lightly overcast sky, with a light breeze off the North Sea this Christmas morning:  it's

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nippy on the lugs, so wrap up if you're going for a daunder.   I always hope for 'sunny spells, and the sky does have a look like we could be lucky in the middle of the day!  It's about time I "put the kettle on".... and then open my presents.

18.30    I've had a busy and enjoyable Christmas.    We have had video contact via Messenger, but it took a lot of getting together:  we still have to have a Group meeting.   That might happen in the evening  now that everything is calming down after Christmas Lunch/Dinner.   Julie and my next door neighbour, added me to the 'family' Dinner, with Sophie, Thomas.... and Archie bringing a full Christmas  Dinner round to me.   In fact I have enough for lunch tomorrow too!    A big 'Thank You' to the whole Hanna Family for thinking of doing that: it was really appreciated.   I have thin legs and arms, but the bit in between is 'not thin'.  

I haven't been further than the gate today, but the villages are busy as I have seen a lot of  folk going up  and down Ferry Road.    The weather gas been good for this time of year, but the sunny spells never came to anything: we've been plagued with low cloud coming in from the North Sea.   And there has been a chilly wind.

22.45   We had a group meeting with Sussex and Somerset;  it was great seeing and speaking to everyone 'Down South' again.   My Great Grandson Henry is really active now.   My word how quickly bairns grow nowadays.    That had me thinking of the first Christmas I could remember:  it was in 1942 at Crathes.   I remember all the goodies that came out of a food parcel from Aunt Janet in Canada:  and a new jersey (that I had watched my mother knitting).    The sound of knitting needles in the evening was part of life in those days;  and holding a hank of wool while 'mither' wound it into a ball.    Family life was 'team work'.  

No 'plan' for tomorrow;  one thing I don;t have to do is make food!.... thanks to Julie.    The weather for
tomorrow looks like being more or less as it was today; perhaps slight colder as the breeze is going to be from the NE.   I'm still hoping for 'sunny spells'  late in the afternoon, but 'light cloud is forecast.   With the chance of drizzle. 

All three photies are from the Archive today:  Top - frost covered wild rose at Barnyards Marsh.... Middle - Bank Street Elie.   

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